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title: The second swallow: «First, we feel it stirring within us, a sweet u… — The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Way… · tree and pragmatics
description: The second swallow: «First, we feel it stirring within us, a sweet unrest; then back come the recollections one by one, like homing pigeons.» Who acts: we, fun. A sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» of the books
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# The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South), sentence 11

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The second swallow: «First, we feel it stirring within us, a sweet unrest; then back come the recollections one by one, like homing pigeons.»

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**Who acts:** we, fun · **What happens:** feel, stir, come · **To what, where:** sweet unrest, recollections

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, fun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:11
# text = The second swallow: «First, we feel it stirring within us, a sweet unrest; then back come the recollections one by one, like homing pigeons.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
6	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stirring	stir	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	unrest	unrest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	recollections	recollection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	homing	homing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stir** *in a quote* | gerund | fun | a sweet unrest |  |  |  | within us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the recollections |  |  | then | like homing pigeons | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location recollection=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:057-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows.lesson:11`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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